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FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 28
Be sure your world is not one in
which things HAPPEX, tut one in
which things ARE DONE. — ANON.
EDITORS SUBMIT THEIR VIEWS
UPON another page jf the Tele
graph this evening is printed a
symposium of great interest to
all who are making a study of the
commission form of government in
Pennsylvania. At the request of the
Telegraph, a number of representative
editors in cities of the Third class have
submitted their views upon commission
government and these opinions ought
to form the basis of intelligent action
by the next Legislature on such
changes as may be proposed.
There is no disposition anywhere to
pull the commission form of govern
ment out by the roots but there is a
strong sentiment in the direction of
such amendment as the experience of
the last three or four years has sug
gested. Even tnose editors who favor
the new form of government do not
hesitate to point out some of its weak
nesses and through an interchange of
views it ought to be possible for the
representatives of the cities concerned
to prepare suitable amendments to the
Clark act so that the Legislature can
do the right thing when the bills are
presented.
Governor Brumbaugh is known to
favor a larger measure of home rule
and this would surely solve much of
the difficulty. At present the cities
of the Third class are suffering as much
from their classification as from any
particular form of administration. It
ought to be easily possible to widen
the latitude of local government so
that many of the objections which
have been raised from timo to time
would disappear.
It is with pleasure that the Tele
graph presents these frank and sen
sible views of able editors to whom the
question of the success or failure of
the commission government was sub
mitted, and we trust that through this
symposium something definite and
beneficial may result.
HUGHES STRONG OUT WEST
EX-SENATOR JOHN H. LANDIS,
writing to the Lancaster Xew Era
from Minneapolis, tells of the
strong sentiment for Hughes which is
developing in the far West. He takes
a very optimistic view of the political
situation from the Republican stand
point and reviews* the conditions as he
has found them in a trip throughout
the Middle and Xorth West. He
points out that the Democratic tariff
has damaged many of the Interests in
that section of the country and de
clares that the fine record of Charles
Evans Hughes appeals to the people of
all classes. Throughout the great
Northwest Is a strong sentiment for
the Republican nominee and Mr. Lan
dis declares with confidence that the
Republican candidate will carry prac
tically every State that has ever gone
Republican before.
As a result ol the rising tide of
Republican sentiment throughout the
country he believes many Democratic
senators will be retired for those who
favor protection and true blue Ameri
canism. Progressives have returned to
their first love in large numbers and
the third party is almost negligible at
the present time.
Altogether the conclusions of Mr.
Landis are convincing because they
are manifestly founded upon personal
Investigation and with no desire to
permit the wish to be father to the
thought.
TWO YEARS OF WAR
THERE is very likely some exag
geration and not a .little truth
.n the statement at Paris yester
day of Sir Edward Morris, premier of
New Foundland, to the effect that the
Germans were beginning to realize
that the war is practically finished.
Premier Morris had just returned
from the Somme front when he said:
The war is virtually finished and
the Germans are beginning to real
ize it. German prisoners with whom
I talked, officers wearing the iron
cross, told me that the Emperor
and his staff seem to fear that Ger
many has lost the game. The col
lapse of Germany Ts only a ques
tios of time. When that day ar
rives we must see that the victory
won by our arms is not lost by
diplomatic negotiations.
Sir Edward may have been talking
with an eye to public effect. Doubt
less he was and that is a part of his
business. But he reflected popular
opinion when he expressed the belief
that the Jig is up for Germany and
her allies.
The war reaches the close of its
second year to-day. The anniversary
finds the famous Hindenburg "nut
cracker" in the hands of the entente
allies, only this time it is no mere
Warsaw that is being crushed—Ger
FRIDAY EVENING,
many herself is between the jaws and
the length of the war will be deter
mined by the length of time the cen
tral powers shall be able to sustain
the ever-increasing pressure.
On the west front the French and
the English continue to push the Ger
mans back—now slowly, now rapidly
—but steadily back. The end there is
not in sight, but it is Inevitably ap
proaching and it will result in the loss
of Belgium to the Germans and a new
allied front, with the Rhino as a
dividing line.
In the east the Russians are even
now in Hungary, raiding the grain
fields. They are overrunning Galicia
and threatening the destruction of
Von Hindenberg's army itself. But
most significant of all is Russia's re
cent successes against the Turks. The
rapid reduction of Turkey, with the
empire either split in two or Constan
tinople captured, is looked for in of
ficial circles, according to dispatches.
Advices state that Turkey's condition
is desperate, and that only near Bag
dad is she putting forth effective re
sistance to her enemies. The reason
for her activity there is attributed to
Germany's interest in the Mesopota
mian cotton crop.
The fall of Erzingan, the most im
portant Turkish stronghold in Ar
menia, opens two courses to Russia,
one due west toward Sivas, which is
a strong fortress, and which, if taken
by the Czar's armies, will be accepted
as indicating that the fall of Constan
tinople will follow. The other course
is due south to Harput, which if taken
will indicate that the Russians intend
to cut the Turkish Empire in two,
separating Mesopotamia, Syria, Pale
stine and Arabia from the rest of the
empire.
From every point for more than a
month the allies report continued
progress. Kitchener's three years of
war may be somewhat shortened. The
allies have prepared a little more rap
idly than he had calculated.
In the light of all this, Sir Edward's
assertions that the war is fast ap
proaching a victorious close for
France, England and Russia and that
the German resistence is crumbling
may be accepted at their face value.
RELIEF OF SOLDIERS' FAMILIES
OX another page of the Telegraph
to-day Mrs. Ryder, of the Wo
men's Division for National Pre
paredness of the Red Cross, makes a
plea for funds for the relief of the
families of soldiers now serving in
Mexico.
Mrs. Ryder says that she has met
with rebuffs in her solicitation for aid
due to the belief of many persons that
married men can be released from
military service if they so desire and
return at once to the support of their
families. This misunderstanding is
no doubt due to a lax interpretation
of the order of the Secretary of War
in this matter. It is anything but easy
for any soldier to get his discharge at
this time. The order of the Secretary
of War is as follows, and a careful
reading of it will show the red tape
that is necessary to procure a release:
Secretary of War directs observ
ance following rules in case of en
listed men of National Guard or or
ganized militia called into service
of United States who have depen
dent relatives: First, Department
Commanders may issue discharges
from service to enlisted men of Na
tional Guard or organized militia
called into service of United States
who are serving within their re
spective departments, provided ap
plications for discharge are made in
due form through military channels
to Department Commanders set
ting forth that the applicant has
one or more relatives who are de
pendent upon him for support, the
application to be accompanied by
adequate written evidence of real
dependency. Second, when it comes
to the knowledge of a commanding
officer through authentic sources
that a soldier of his command has
one or more dependent relatives the
soldier concerned will be informed
of his right to make application
for discharge on such account and
discharge will be issued upon ap
plication, if warranted by the cir
cumstances. Should the soldier ex
press a desire to remain in the ser
vice .and at the same time decline to
allot any portion of his pay to fam
ily or dependents, the case will be
reported to the War Department for
final action. Third, when an ap
plication for discharge has been
finally approved the proper recruit
ing agencies will be at once in
formed so that vacancy caused may
be filled promptly as possible. Re
cruiting and mustering officers will
be enjoined to avoid acceptance of
recruits having relatives dependent
upon them for support. * * *
It is natural for the soldier to
hesitate to make his own application
and scores of wives and mothers who
have more need for their husbands
and sons at home than the nation
now has for them at the border are
not sufficiently versed in formal pro
cedure to take the necessarily rather
involved steps to procure the return
of their bread-winners.
Not so long ago Harrisburg very
properly contributed thousands of dol
lars for the relief of the hungry
children of Belgium. A little later
hundreds of dollars more were raised
to relieve food shortage in Belgium.
But Harrisburg children may go
hungry and few raise a finger or
contribute a cent. Charity begins at
home and it Is a mighty poor city that
will parade its virtues abroad and
that will go Into a fit of hysteria over
the hungry women and children of a
far off country while It permits its own
people to suffer while their support
ers are in Texas standing between the
United States and the bloodthirsty
hordes of Mexico.
Is that the kind of label Harrisburg
wants to wear?
We hope not.
THE DEUTSCHLAND
THE Navy Department has done
wisely in stationing cruisers off
the Chesapeake bay to prevent
any interference with the Deutschland
within the three-mile limit of safety
prescribed by international law.
Nothing would delight England
more than the capture or destruction
of this giant submarine and it is not
past belief that some of her naval offi
cers would strain a point to carry out
the orders from London. We want no
such International complications as
would be certain to follow an attack
on the Deutschland before she is with
out the zone of protection guaranteed
by the United States to all vessels of
friendly powers.
Public sentiment In America may
be against Germany in this war, but
it is nevertheless with the Deutschland
and its brave crew. All America joins
in hoping that the doughty captain
will sail his boat triumphantly back
into the port whence he sailed.
1 TELE6RAPHPERISCOPE [
—As yet we have no complaints
from Cuba concerning Uncle Sam's
enticement of her sharks to Atlantic
coast resorts.
—Scandal travels three times faster
than sound, according to a University
of Wisconsin authority, which Induces
the belief that he must have been read
ing certain eastern newspapers.
—The shoemakers say they are go
ing back to sensible fashions in wo
men's shoes, but we suspect it's only
another scheme to give us a new. fash
ion, thereby stimulating the market.
—Emperor William went on record
the other day as saying he continues
to trust in God; in which event it
must be concluded that the Germans
have neglected to keep their powder
dry.
—The world Is all wrong: Every
time the river is right for fishing
we can't go, and everytime we can go
the river is muddy.
—We don't blame those Pittsburgh
"white wings" for striking because
they have to keep the streets and their
white uniforms clean at the same time.
EDITORIAL COMMENT"
One great difficulty on the Texas
border appears to be to persuade the
national guardsmen that they are as
badly off or as anxious to figure as
slackers as some officious political
agents desire them to be.—N. Y. World.
Captain Sims of the navy has been
asked to revise his report of the Battle
of Jutland in the interests of neutrality.
If the captain knows who won he
ought to be allowed to tell. Nobody else
seems to know. —Kansas City Star.
The Kaiser "views with horror" the
barbarous attacks of the Cossack cav
alry, but this, again, is not important.
The Kaiser views with horror any
deviltry that is not of his own inven
tion.—N. Y. Sun.
In addition to the 25 million dollars
proposed to be given for the Danish
West Indies, the United States is to
relinquish to Denmark all its rights
in Greenland. Also we might be ready
to throw in any claims we may have
on the North Pole.—Kansas City Star.
Villa was reported yesterday as sev
eral miles ahead of his nurse and go
ing strong. New York Sun.
Three Views of Booze
[From the Kansas City Star.]
The same mail brought to the office
°£. rhe - Star yesterday three different
things from three widely separated
places: Cincinnati, Calgary and Spo
, ne „ J hat from Cincinnati was a "clip
from the publicity department of
the National \\ holesale Liquor Dealers'
Association, 301 United Bank Building.
At the top of the sheet was an invita
tion to the editor to clip and use "free
of charge" any article contained there
in. Among other things on this clip
sheet was a cartoon showing the "Anti-
Saloon League" piloting a motorcycle
with "Business Interests" riding the
seat behind him and both, with terri
fied faces, were plunging over the
precipice of "Dry Territory" into a can
yon labeled "Financial Ruin."
The second communication was a let
ter containing a clipping from the Leth
bridge Herald, of Alberta, Canada, giv
ing an account of the first pay day in
that town since the province went dry,
July 1. It said that the merchants
never before had such good business in
one day. This paragraph is from the
report:
"As an example of the way prohibi
tion is working out, one man went into
a clothing store. He had with him his
wife and whole family. He outfitted all
the children and was mighty proud of
them. Prior to July 1. it was consider
ed the inevitable thing that he would
have a carouse and spend a good share
of his wages for drink."
The clipping stated that there were
many such cases. It also stated that
there was not one arrest in the town
and not a fight nor a drunken man on
the streets where there used to be many
every Saturday. There was not one
case in police court the following Mon
day morning where there used to be a
dozen.
The third communication was an edi
torial from the Daily Chronicle of Spo
kane, Wash., setting forth that since
that State became "dry" January 1 the
county jail has one hundred cells "to
let" that were occupied a year ago; the
poorfarm had lost one-fourth of its
boarders; bank clearings had increased
$30,000,000; building permits had in
creased 60 per cent. Destitution, crime
poverty, charity cases had decreased
greatly. Grocers, clothiers, shoe dealers
reported an increase of from 5 to 35
per cent.
Does anybody take seriously the
arguments put forth by the liquor
dealers?
$25,000,000 Fixed Delusion
[Prom the New York Sun.]
There is no doubt about the desir
ability of the purchase of the Danish
islands at a reasonable price, but an
administration that signs a treaty pro
posing to pay $25,000,000 for them must
be in a state of hypnosis.
Indeed, this figure of $25,000,000 seems
to be one of the fixed ideas which are
attracting the curious attention of the
psychologists to Dr. Wilson's intellec
tual processes. That was the exact sum
in which he and his former Secretary
of State undertook to penalize the
United States Treasury in the case oi
Colombia, and at the same time to de
nounce to the world as infamous an ex
ecutive act cf a Republican President.
Is the present $25,000,000 proposal
likewise intended to punish the country
for the failure of President Roosevelt to
obtain St. Thomas, St. John and St
Croix from Denmark fourteen years
ago for $5,000,000?
We agree with our neighbor the
World, that faithful eulogist of Dr. Wil
son's policies and moods and fixed ideas
that "the price now proposed, $25,000 -'
000, seems large." It does seem large
It is not so easy, however, to concur
in the World's further conclusion that
although $25,000,000 may seem a big
price, "it is cheap enough as an insur
ance against the menace of an inimical
Power.
If Alaska (cost. 17,200,000 in gold)
were ours to wager, we would bet that
valuable possession against Barren Is
land that a cash offer of $10,000,000
would be hailed in Copenhagen as the
greatest business opportunity in Den
mark's respectable nistory.
Who put the $25,000,000 into the
treaty which the Senate is to be asked
to ratify?
Retribution
"Car Hits Man Carrying Baby."
Philadelphia headline.
Servea him right. Where was his
wife?— Kansas City Star.
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
[Questions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza
tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."]
Who is the Mayor? His term? His
salary? What departments are under
his direct supervision?
Mayor, E. S. Meals. Term, four
years. Salary. $3,000.00 Depart
ments over which he has direct su
pervision: Police. City Solicitor,
City Clerk and Sealer of Weights
and Measures
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
"P atiticz uw
I'Pe»uwcifi<J'a>ua
ly the Ex-Commlttceman
Disposition of the quo warranto pro
eeedines against Mayor John V. Kosek,
of Wilkes-Barre, on the ground that
he Is ineligible to succeed hflmself as
mayor of a third class city will be
taken up in about a month. Attorney
General Brown has decided that the
case will be considered when Deputy
Attorney General W. M. Hargest re
turns to the city. Mr. Hargest heard
the application for the quo warranto
and has been the representative of the
State in numerous election and mu
nicipal law contests.
The Kosek case will affect every one
of the third class cities and has at
tracted much attention because of the
tests already made in the courts. It
involves the question whether the
Clark act does not provide a whole
new scheme of city government. The
mayor's counsel contends that it does,
but this is asserted by his opponents
not to be the cast.
—Philadelphia Is to have a new
probe and this time it will be started
by the mayor. He wants to have the
water supply in\ estigated. The grand
jury investigations are said to be get
ing rather close to police.
—A McNichol man was yesterday
appointed to a place in one of the
Philadelphia city departments.
—Congressman D. F. Lafean, of
York, is said to have secured the con
stitutional amendment advertising for
one of the York city papers. In mak
ing up the list all of the papers in the
city of York were left out.
George W. Norris, appointed to
the farm loan board yesterday, was
formerly director of docks, wharves
and ferries in Philadelphia under
Mayor Blankenburg and one of the
best-known men in the Philadelphia
financial world. He is a Democrat and
was in sympathy with the reorgan
ization movement in this State. His
selection will meet with general ap
proval in the cistern states.
William Draper Lewis, the man
who, next to William Flinn, was the
big end of the Progressive movement
in this State, in a letter sent to the
Philadelphia Public Ledger says re
garding the end of the Washington
party practically what he said in a let
ter read at the recent conference here.
Mr. Lewis writes: "I have been asked
to express my conclusions with respect
to the recent meeting of the Washing
ton party State committee. I approve
of the action taken by the committee
in refusing to organize, because I agree
with Colonel lloosevelt in believing
that the Progressive party as a sepa
rate political party should go out of
existence."
—The meeting of borough officials
interested in the drafting of the uni
form highway ordinance for the small
er municipalities of the State held at
the office of the attorney general yes
terday will do more to eliminate a pro
lific cause of disputes than anything
else the Pennsylvania Association of
Boroughs has done in a long time.
The proposed ordinance covers all
matters which have been in contro
versy and it is believed that it will be
generally favored. Copies of the re
vised measure will be mailed in a short
time to all of the boroughs in the
league and they will be asked to send
suggestions which will be considered
later on and a final copy sent out for
adoption.
—A Council of 35 members for
Philadelphia, rather than one of 16
as proposed by Clinton Rogers Wood
ruff, was suggested yesterday to the
subcommittee on charter revision in a
letter received from William Hancock,
president of the United Business Men's
Association. Besides expressing dis
approval of the proposed Council of
16, Mr. Hancock wrote that the asso
ciation would be "hardly likely to
listen to any such idea as a city mana
ger to take the place of the Mayor and
his directors." At the same time, Mr.
Hancock wrote that the association
was in accord with the general propo
sition that the charter was in need of
some revision.
Price of Newspapers
[From the Editor and Publisher.]
The two evening newspapers at At
lanta, the Journal and the Georgian,
confronted alike with rising costs of
production, acted in unison in raising
the selling price per copy from two to
three cents. It is safe to assume that
;he Atlanta people will approve, realiz
ing that the increased price assures a
continuance of high standards of excel
lence in those newspapers.
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES"
FIVE PRINTINGS IX FOUR WEEKS
Since "A Diplomat's Wife in Mexico,"
by Edith O'Shaughnessy was published
in June, the book has not come off the
firesses, and in four weeks five prlnt
ngs have been necessary to meet the
demand for it. Mrs. O'Shaughnessy, the
wife of Nelson O'Shaughnessy, who was
the Charge d'Affaires in Mexico City
before the breaking oft of relations be
tween the United States and Huerta s
Government, wrote, at the time, in let
ters to her mother, all the dramatic
happenings of those days which now
make up the pages of "A Diplomat's
Wife in Mexico."
HOW CAN I SELL MORE!
"Retail Selling," a book by James W.
Fisk, is puDlished this week by Harper
& Brothers, as the first volume in
Harper's Retail Business Series. Mi.
Fisk, who is now Director of Selling
Service, Lord & Taylor's, New York
formerly Director of Courses in Retail
Selling and Advertising "Dry-Goods
Economist's" Training School, has util
ized the results of his business experi
ence in the preparation of this sugges
tive book on various phases of selling.
He presents ideas and methods which
he believes will be useful to every man
in retail business, and to students who
wish to acquire a practical knowledge
of the subject. Some of the topics are:
Compensation, Sales Policies, Organiza
tion of Selling Force, Arrangement of
Stock, Getting People Into tne Stores,
The Personal Equation and the En
vironment, Training Salespeople to Sell
More, Method, Incentive, Promotion of
Loyalty, How to Keep Track of Results.
SINCLAIR LEWIS' HIKE
Half a year ago, apparently in Imi
tation of the hero of his own novel,
"The Trail of the Hawk," Sinclair
Lewis, with Mrs. Lewis, began a specu
lative hike through America. Now,
after months In Florida, Georgia, Chi
cago, small Minnesota towns, Mr.
Lewis has started on a motor trip from
Minnesota to California. The Lewises
have made their own tent, on an origi
nal design, and it acts as a car protec
tion as well as sleeping quarters; and
they carry complete camp outfit, from
a pull-out for wilderness roads, and a
knife for fish-cleaning, to a folding
table and a folding typewriter, which
latter two make up the traveling writ
ingroom. So If a small motor with a
large tent, driven by a tall, lean young
man with red hair, Is seen in Northern
Minnesota, Dakota, Montana, the Yel
lowstone, Glacier National Park, the
Canadian Rockies, Washington, Ore
gon, or California, any time between
now and Christmas, tho beholder will
Srobably have seen the author of "Our
[r. Wrenn," "The Trail of the Hawk,"
and a new novel to appear next Spring.
MARK TWAIN UNDER THE SEA
Mark Twain's "Innocence Abroad" is
one of the few volumes which have
found space in the German U-boat dur
ing its subAtlantlc voyage. "Innocents
Abroad." exclaimed her captain, humor
ously, "but that did not apply to us."
Mark Twain's works have been car
ried bv travelers Into many strange
parts of the earth and the sea; now,
perhaps, we shall hear oX them as the
Joy. of aviators, - ,
THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
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FEMININE PREPAREDNESS
By Frederic J. Haskin
SOCIETY is for preparedness. It
has established a military camp
here where debutantes and ma
trons, clad in khaki and military leg
gings, are learning to wigwag, tele
graph, render first-aid, sew and cook.
No longer can the male of Oglethorpe
or Plattsburg strut before his admir
ing womenfolk and patronize their ig
norance of all things military. In
stead, the family arguments of the
future will doubtless be confined to
the way it is done in Oglethorpe and
the way It is done in Chevy Chase.
The girl's camp, called the National
Service School, is located on shady
suburban lots facing Connecticut Ave
nue, within walking distance of the
Chevy Chase and Columbia Clubs. On
one side of the street are the instruc
tion tents, Including army dressings,
dietetics, sewing, telegraphy and the
emergency hospital; and on the other
are the sleeping tents, the colonel's
headquarters, and an immense screen
ed and awninged structure affectio
nately designated as the mess house.
The prevailing color, of course, is that
of khaki. Khaki are the tents and
khaki is the heavy masculine apparel
of the young ladles. The huge army
stoves with their crooked stove-pipes
and steaming vats in front of the mess
house; the commissary tent with its
trunk equipment and supplies of sar
dines and flour; the wireless apparatus
on the corner and the metallic click
of the telegraph heard in the colonel's
headquarters, all combine to create
the military atmosphere. But the
sound of silvery and surreptitious gig
gles emanating from the emergency
hospital and martial orders delivered
in a clear, high soprano, suggest noth
ing so much as a lot of little girls play
ing Indian.
Many of the girls feel the same way
about it at the beginning, but it usual
ly takes just a day and a half to make
them realize their mistake. The dis
cipline is strictly military, requiring a
punctilious response different from
that of the average young ladies' fin
ishing school. On arriving, the new
comer is assigned a place in one of
four companies, together with certain
military duties for which she is held
responsible. She sleeps on a military
cot, which is not the most comforta
ble thing hi the world, inside a tent
shared with another member of the
company. The tents are built on pine
board platforms several inches above
the ground and lighted with electric
ity; nevertheless, they are a sudden
change from the close shelter of the
bedroom. One western girl said that
the first night she was devoured by
mosquitos and caught a fearful cold
in her head, but by the end of the
week she felt abnormally healthy and
more energetic than ever before.
The camp is aroused early in the
morning at the sound of the bugle,
and performing a hasty toilet that
rather ignores the Grecian lines of the
hair, dons its khaki and proceeds in
orderly but impatient squads to the
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR^
WELCOME TO OCR CITY
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Dear Sir: Arriving in your city yes
terday afternoon from the west, I was
forced to remain in the station for
some time waiting for delayed bag
gage. When ready to leave there were
no porters about, and no cabs in sight.
Seeing a car with a "Jitney" sign and
one passenger, a lady, like myself, I
signaled the driver. He opened the
door and took in my heavy English
bag, but as I was about to enter, a
uniformed station attache said: "Lady,
you can't get in there; Jitneys are not
permitted to take traffic from this sta
tion." The driver said he was unaware
of that fact, but the officer was firm
and would not permit me to enter the
car. Rather than make a fuss in a
strange city, I was forced to walk
through the broiling hot sun to the end
of the station property in order to take
that car in the street. Is this the
usual way to welcome strangers to
"Greater Harrisburg."
ILLINOIS.
S
Truth Essential
James Keeley, of Chicago Herald, in
addressing an advertising club in Kan
sas City, said in part: "Truth should
prevail in advertising, as well as In
the news columns. The value of white
space is based on the reader's belief In
what is printed In that space. I believe
that dishonest advertising is a public
wrong. There has been a great for
ward movement along advertising
lines in the last few years. The adver
tising man who insists upon absolutely
right statements is writing insurance
on his business. The average news
paper of to-day is an honest paper, and
there is little reflection of the adver
tising in the editorial columns. Adver
tising men who believe In truth and
decency can do much for the news
papers In underwriting l faith In the
printed word, and unless that is done,
money spent In advertising is thrown
away. Their great task is to make peo
ple believe what they read. There must
bo absolute honesty of stateliest,"
JULY 28, 1916.
mess tent. The change of air and
drinking water, as well as the outdoor
sleeping, have a distinctly invigora
ting effect on the appetite, so that the
coarse barracks crockery and plain,
sturdy military menu do not offend the
aesthetic sensibilities of the campers.
During the first few days, several
young ladies insisted upon decorating
the rough pine tables with pitchers of
flowers received from admirers, but
later this was discouraged.
Debutantes who shudder at the sight
of a dairy lunch room, consume the
ungarnished food of the military camp
with a relish that is extremely flatter
ing to the Austrian chef, who is one of
the number of enlisted men residing
at the camp and looking after the
ladies. The sight of the rookies at
breakfast it certainly inspiring, not to
say unique. Seated on crude wooden
benches before oblong, roughly-hewn
tables are some two hundred feminine
warriors, emitting a steady stream of
noisy clatter while trying to balance
the heavy white coffee cups of the un
breakable order. The average break
fast consists of grape fruit, corn
flakes, boiled eggs and potatoes, bread
and butter and coffee, and the dinners
and. suppers are also planned on a
generous scale. Finger bowls are un
heard of, and oftfen there is only one
teaspoon for both the eggs and coffee.
At first there were paper napkins, but
during the second week of the en
campment these ran out and were su
perseded by embroidered handker
chiefs—and khaki.
After breakfast, there are drills and
lessons in warcraft. Naval Instructors
Instruct squads of debutante soldiers
In the Intricacies of wireless and wig
wagging. while others are learning to
make bandages, pillows, for the
wounded and listening to lectures on
dietetics. During these, the very
strictness military discipline is main
ed, and the. girls wear a look of dig
nified importance. Groups of khaki
clad figures may be seen around the
telegraph instrument, at the sewing
machine, taking notes on a dietetic
demonstration or watching a naval
officer wave a red flag in weird ges
tures signifying various important
things.
Government bulletins on household
economics are at the disposal of the
students, and several well-known au
thorities have given and will continue
to give interesting talks on subjects
; relating to military life, such as
health and sanitation, European me
thods of taking care of the wounded,
| Red Cross duties and the preparations
t of food and clothing for the Red Cross
hospitals. These lectures are open to
the day students attending the camp
of whom there are about five hundred
£is well as the public in general. Even
should the United States manage to es
cape war, this information is of ines
timable value to society women who
constitute the major support of the
American Red Cross which has sent so
much assistance, both in supplies and
money, to the sufferers of Europe.
I OUR DAILY LAUGH
IZf j I THE TRAV
( J Lady: Why
j don't you go to
I ii'l Hobo: Because
* believe in seeing
America first,
PRECAUTION.
Did you tell her v
what you said
was in strict con-
want her to think
it was important **
enough to repeat |
WHEN?
By Wing Dinger
"How old is Ann?" no longer is
The burning question, bo.
That mystery which worried folks
Not many years ago.
At last was solved—the question now
That's sweeping like a gale
Across this land and others; is
"When will the Deutschland sail?"
A Shadowless Light
One of the latest Improvements In
hospital equipment 1B the Invention
of a shadowless light for the operat
ing table. This has been secured by
a fixture containing eight electric
lights placed so that their rays meet
at an angle of 45 degrees. This
makes better vision possible In the ex
amination of wounds and also elimi
nates the possibility of a delicate op
eration being hindered by the shad
ows of the surgeons hands as Is fre
quently the case with lights ordinarily
placed. It is claimed that the shad
owless light might lessen the number
of accidents ia many industrial estab-
Uahmonu.
iEbemng filljat
Camping time is at hand and if
the Susquehanna and its tributaries
will behave themselves the next
month or so there will be an unusual
number of persons going to the islands
and the meadows along the wide
branching river and those of the
Juniata, Swatara, Mahantongo,
Conodogulnet and other streams
which go to make up the river. In
years gone by camping was the great
outdoor diversion and a good many
who now swear by the seashore used
to be taken by their parents when
young to favorite camping spots
within twenty miles of Harrisburg and
had the time of their lives, fun, which,
if they would admit it, they have
never duplicated. August is the favor
ite time for camping in this part of
the country and many or the men
who are employed on the railroads
and in the mills and factories are try
ing to work out plans whereby they"
may take a week or so for camp life
and endeavor to thin out the fish. The
cool nights of August will soon be here
and if old-time camp tricks of keeping
off mosquitoes and snakes have not
been forgotten it will be an easy mat
ter to overlook the song of the bull
frogs and the chirps of the tree toads.
To be up with the sun and catch fish
for breakfast and take five ®wims a
day and walk a mile for the milk
from a farmhouse, these are things
which your old-time camper likes to
tell about. Malaria does not bother
the real camper and if the fire about
which stories are told at night does
draw mosquitoes there is such a thing
as an old-fashioned net to escape an
noyance. The old-time way of camp
ing out is something which if ex
perienced is not forgotten.
♦ * *
Some of the strike-breakers seem
to be thoroughly enjoying their work
on the cars of the Harrisburg Rail
ways Company. It is not uncommon
to some of the gay boys sitting down
to chat with girl passengers or to join
in the conversations of men who have
opinions on the strike. Tney do it all
as a matter of course and when one
is accustomed to the old-time discipline
of the company it is rather a shock.
The best story is told about the men
on an uptown line who stopped their
car while they went to a drugstore
and bought ice cream cones.
"Some idea of the extent of Pennsyl
vania building and loan associations
and the vast amount of their assets is
shown by the report made at the an
nual convention of the associations of
the country at St. Louis," said a man
much interested in such organizations
to-day. "This State showed 1830 as
sociations with 568,000 members and
assets worth $277,000,000. It was al
most a third of the whole list in the
country."
« • «
The Harrisburg Public Library has
placed about a dozen books on Span
ish and some of the well-known works
in that language into circulation in
response to the numerous requests
which have been made for such books
by residents of this city. In the last
year scores of people have taken up
the study of Spanish in this city, in
cluding a number of businessmen.
* • •
A former mayor who had his
troubles during a strike was the late
John D. Patterson. He was in office
during the riots of 1877, and never
left his office unless it was to go to>
the courthouse to give orders to
deputies and special policemen. At
that time the police station was In the
rear of the old Lochiel Hotel. Mayor
Patterson Would not permit his officers
to go home. They slept ana ate at
the Lochiel hotel when sleep and eat
ing was possible. Sometimes it was
a whole day before there was a chance
to eat. The city was patrolled from
the old Lochiel furnace in South Har
risburg to Maclay street. Officers were
lined along the Pennsylvania Railroad
tracks between Market street ana
Maclay street.
• • •
Horace W. Davis, deputy attorney
general, who has been busy at the
State Capitol this week preparing de
cisions in cases, is home from a trip
of some 7,000 miles traveled in settle
ment of affairs of the Pittsburgh Bank
for Savings, in which he is acting for
the State as receiver. He had to travel
to Idaho and California and sell prop
erties and stop in middle States to dig
up .people who had. claims. He cover
ed much territory and met many peo
ple, he says, but he would like to go
over the same trip again some time to
see the country.
Oddly enough the truck loads of
people who take trips into the coun
try these warm evenings as part of the
riding game during the trolley strike
recall the days when the trolley par
ties were in vogue. About twenty
years ago neighborhoods, church so
cieties, lodges and other organizations
used to band together and get open
cars, which the old Harrisburg Trac
tion company and some of its predeces
sors used to string with lights which
drew millions of bugs and lighted up
the countryside. These trips were
great occasions because people turned
out all along the lines and there was
always ice cream at some point along
the trip. Now people hire big trucks
and go out into the country for a cool
ing off. Their singing in the night
reminds one of the way the old trolley
parties used to stir up things late at
night.
Certainly no complaint can be made
about the way some of the strike
breakers handle the whistles on their
cars. They start in at terminals and
keep tooting for blocks. Out on the
suburban lines they blow so much that
one suspects that they are barking for
business or advertising the fact that
cars are running. In the city they
seem to prefer the whistles to the
gongs, and if anyone does not know
they are coming he must be deaf.
• • *
Visitors to the city yesterday in
cluded Dennis J. Driscoll, borough
solicitor of St. Marys, prominent in
municipal and school affairs in Cen
tral Pennsylvania and former Demo
cratic State chairman. He was here
to discuss the borough traffic ordinance
with the committee of the League of
Boroughs.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Dr. John W. Hoffman, new presi
dent of Ohio Wesleyan University is
a former Pittsburgh minister.
—H. G. Staab, a Milwaukee ani
mal fancier, has established a deer
park near Pittsburgh.
—George Dallas Dixon, Philadelphia
railroad man. will go to West Vir
ginia for August.
—Benjamin Thaw, Jr., of Pitts
burgh, has passed the examination to
be secretary of an embassy in the
diplomatic service.
—Robert E. Glendinning, Philadel
phia banker, will spend August in
Maine.
DO YOU KNOW "|
That Harrisburg sends flour to
South America?
HISTORIC HARRISBTTRG
Sons of William Penn were visitors
to John Harris' house at Haxria Fetry
several times.